Attacking vs. Tailgunning, Pre-Workout Supplements and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 198
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Attacking vs. tailgunning, how to transition from the trainer to race season, elevation training, pre-workout supplements for cyclists and more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• How Nate and Coach Jonathan used team tactics to win a criterium
• A guide to Tailgunning
• How to use a team to block breakaways
• The controversial topic of relieving one's self on the bike
• The effects of mental stress on your performance on the bike
• How long do the benefits of elevation training last?
• Transitioning from the trainer to race season
• The goal of brick workouts
• How cyclists can use brick workouts
• How your job affects your fitness
• How to train if you don't have any specific goals or races
• Helmet choices for XC racing
• How to train your one-minute power
• Are pre-workout supplements good for cyclists?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee and beside me is our head coach |
| 0:08.6 | Hi everybody that's Chad Timberman and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:11.9 | Hi everybody and we are happy that you're joining us you can join us live on Facebook and YouTube usually every Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific |
| 0:18.7 | Which is what we're doing right now |
| 0:20.9 | Some days it varies and you can always tune in at forum dot trainer road dot com or follow trainer road on any social channels |
| 0:26.8 | And you can find out when we are going to go live on the podcast |
| 0:30.4 | You can join us on those channels |
| 0:32.0 | You can submit questions live to us, but also you can submit them all throughout the week and please do this because this is how we |
| 0:37.8 | Whole most of the questions that we have at trainer road dot com slash podcast |
| 0:41.7 | I got a ton of questions submitted we come through them and we have a list of questions to cover today for all of you |
| 0:47.9 | We also have if you're joining us for livestream |
| 0:50.1 | We're gonna get to see a bit of a different view than normal |
| 0:52.3 | We usually just had one camera, but we decided why just have one and said we just jumped to four |
| 0:57.1 | So there'll be a lot of changing going on |
| 0:59.3 | First time that our our film producer Bryce here will be going through and managing the switches on that |
| 1:05.4 | So if you're joining us live have patients if we make mistakes or anything else and to get a whole lot more close to us |
| 1:11.6 | Then you have before just we don't chat the whole time |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, Chad just lean back |
| 1:17.0 | Expressing a lot of uncomfortableness with it |
| 1:19.0 | Escape |
| 1:21.4 | So with that before we get into anything we should talk about some race takeaways we raced our bikes this weekend |
| 1:28.1 | People were building up the fact that you and I were going to race each other Nate |
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